Prof. Timothy Foster
Trinity College, Ireland

Professor Tim Foster completed his PhD on mechanisms of resistance to chloramphenicol in the Microbiology Department, University of Bristol in 1972. He was appointed to a Junior Lecturership in Bacteriology at Trinity College, Dublin and began independent research on mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics and heavy metal ions. On sabbatical with Nancy Kleckner in Harvard in 1978 – 79 he initiated the molecular dissection of transposon Tn10 and gained first-hand knowledge of the newly emerging recombinant DNA technologies. In the early 1980s the first genes from pathogens were cloned, sequenced and manipulated. In Dublin studies were initiated with Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors. The current phase of Prof. Foster's research began with the discovery and characterization the fibrinogen-binding surface protein clumping factor A. His group now focuses on functional analysis of a number of different surface proteins that are involved in adhesion, colonization and immune evasion. Prof. Foster has been an author on over 30 peer-reviewed publications in the last 5 years alone. He is currently Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

 

 

 

 


Prof. Timothy Foster
Trinity College, Ireland

Professor Tim Foster completed his PhD on mechanisms of resistance to chloramphenicol in the Microbiology Department, University of Bristol in 1972. He was appointed to a Junior Lecturership in Bacteriology at Trinity College, Dublin and began independent research on mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics and heavy metal ions. On sabbatical with Nancy Kleckner in Harvard in 1978 – 79 he initiated the molecular dissection of transposon Tn10 and gained first-hand knowledge of the newly emerging recombinant DNA technologies. In the early 1980s the first genes from pathogens were cloned, sequenced and manipulated. In Dublin studies were initiated with Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors. The current phase of Prof. Foster's research began with the discovery and characterization the fibrinogen-binding surface protein clumping factor A. His group now focuses on functional analysis of a number of different surface proteins that are involved in adhesion, colonization and immune evasion. Prof. Foster has been an author on over 30 peer-reviewed publications in the last 5 years alone. He is currently Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.